Interstate 80 ( I-80 ) is a cross-continental east-west highway access road in the United States that runs from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The highway was set in 1956 as one of the original routes of the Interstate Toll Road System. Segment finally opened for traffic in 1986. This is the second longest Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90. Interstate crosses many major cities including Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Des Moines, and Toledo, and passes 10 miles (16 km) from Chicago, Cleveland and New York City.
I-80 is the closest Interstate Highway to the historic Lincoln Highway route, the first road across the United States. The highway roughly traces other significant historical journeys in the Western United States: the Oregon Trail crosses Wyoming and Nebraska, the California Line across much of Nevada and California, the first transcontinental cross-country route, and except in the Great Salt Lake area, the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railway. From near east Chicago to near Youngstown, Ohio, the I-80 is a highway, which comprises most of the Indiana and Ohio Turnpike toll roads. I-80 runs simultaneously with I-90 from nearby Portage, Indiana, to Elyria, Ohio. In Pennsylvania, I-80 is known as Keystone Shortway, a highway freeway that crosses the rural north-central part of the country on the way to New Jersey and New York City.
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California
I-80 starts at intersection with Route A.S. 101 (US 101) in San Francisco, and then cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to Oakland. Then head north-east through Vallejo, Sacramento, and the Sierra Nevada mountains before crossing to Nevada.
Part of the route through Pinole involves an experimental transplant of a rare species of Santa Cruz tarweed on the right path.
Nevada
In Nevada, I-80 crosses the northern part of the state. The freeway serves the metropolitan area of ​​Reno-Sparks, and also passes the cities of Fernley, Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Elko, Wells, and West Wendover on its way through the state.
The Nevada I-80 section follows the Truckee and Humboldt rivers, which have been used as transportation corridors since the California Gold Rush of the 1840s. Interstate also follows the historical route of the California Trail, First Transcontinental Railroad, and Feather River Route in all parts of the state. The I-80 in Nevada closely follows, and at many points directly overlaps, the original route of Victory Highway, State Route 1, and US $ 40.
Utah
After crossing the western border of Utah in Wendover, I-80 crossed the secluded Bonneville Salt to the west of the Great Salt Lake. The longest stretch of the exit on the Interstate Highway is located between Wendover and Knolls, with 37.4 miles (60.2 km) between the exits. Part of the I-80, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, is very flat and straight, adorned with big warning signs about fatigue and sleepiness of the driver.
In the east of the salt plains, the I-80 passes the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake and continues through Salt Lake City, where it joins the I-15 for three miles (4.8 km) before entering the Wasatch Mountains east of the city. It climbs Parley's Canyon and passes several miles from Park City as it follows a route through the mountains to the intersection with the eastern end of the western part of I-84. From the intersection it continued up the Echo Canyon and headed to the border with Wyoming, near Evanston.
The route part of Utah I-80 is defined in the Utah Annotation Code Ã,§ 72-4-113 (10).
Wyoming
In Wyoming, the I-80 reaches a maximum altitude of 8,640 feet (2,630 m) above sea level at Sherman Summit, near Buford, which at 8,000 feet (2,400 m) is the tallest community on I-80. Further west in Wyoming, the Interstate passes through the dry Red Desert and crosses the Continental Divide. On one side, the highway crosses Divide twice, because two ridges of the Rocky Mountains split in Wyoming, forming the Great Divide Basin, from which surface water can not flow, but can only evaporate.
Nebraska
I-80 enters Nebraska to the west of Bushnell. The western part of I-80 in Nebraska runs very close to the state of Colorado, without entering the state. Intersections I-76 and I-80 are visible from the Colorado-Nebraska state line. From its intersection with I-76 to Grand Island, I-80 is located in the valley of South Platte River and Platte River.
The longest interstate longest stretch anywhere on the Interstate Highway System is about 72 miles (116 km) of I-80 occurring between exit 318 in the Grand Island area and 390 mile marker near Lincoln. Throughout this length, the road does not vary from the ideal straight line more than a few meters. After Lincoln, I-80 turned northeast toward Omaha. Then cross the Missouri River in Omaha to enter the state of Iowa. Parts of I-80 in Nebraska are marked as the Blue Star Memorial Highway.
Iowa
I-80 is the longest Interstate Highway in Iowa. It extends from west to east across the central part of the country through population centers of Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Quad Cities. It enters the state on the Missouri River in Council Bluffs and heads east through the southern Iowa ramps. In the Des Moines area, I-80 meets with I-35 and two routes of Des Moines cut together. In Ankeny, the Interstate is split and I-80 continues east. In eastern Iowa, it provides access to the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Northwest of the Quad Cities at Walcott is IowaÃ, 80, the Largest Truckstop in the World. I-80 passes along the northern edge of Davenport and Bettendorf and leaves Iowa through the Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi River to Illinois. The majority of roads pass agricultural land, but about one-third of the Iowa population lives along corridor I-80.
Illinois
In Illinois, I-80 runs from the Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge across the South Mississippi River to the junction with I-74. Then it flows eastward across north-central Illinois to the north of the Illinois River to Joliet. The I-80 went east and joined I-94 before entering Indiana.
Indiana
In Indiana, I-80 operates simultaneously with other Interstate Highway for the entire length. It runs with I-94 on the Borman Expressway from Illinois state line to Lake Station, Indiana, and Indiana Toll Road with I-90 from Lake Station to the Ohio state line.
Between LaPorte and Greater Toledo, Ohio, area, I-80/I-90 lies within 10 miles (16 km) of the Michigan state line, but does not enter the country. From State Road 9 (SR 9) and I-80/I-90 interchange, a mark marking the Indiana-Michigan state line is visible. I-80/I-90 passes through the metropolitan area of ​​South Bend, past the University of Notre Dame and University Park Mall, intersected with St. Joseph Valley Parkway. At another point in northern Indiana, I-80/I-90 is within a distance of about 200 yards (180 m) from the Michigan border.
Ohio
In Ohio, I-80 entered with I-90 from Indiana Toll Road and soon became Ohio Turnpike. Two Interstates crossed the northwest Ohio countryside and ran south of the Toledo metropolitan area. In Rossford, the highway cuts I-75 in an area known as the American Junction. This intersection is one of the largest intersections of the three Interstate Highways in the United States.
At Elyria Township, west of Cleveland, I-90 split from I-80, leaving the highway and walking northeast as a highway. I-80 drove east-southeast through Cleveland's southern suburbs. Just northwest of Youngstown, Ohio Turnpike continues to southeast as I-76, while I-80 exits the highway and runs east to north Youngstown, entering southern Pennsylvania Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, I-80 is the main highway between the eastern and western states through central Pennsylvania. It runs from the Ohio country line near Sharon to the Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge over the Delaware River and is called "Z.H. Confair Memorial Highway".
It crosses the extreme north of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Spur of I-80 (I-180) runs into Williamsport, while another (I-380) runs into Scranton. I-80 intercepts I-476 in the Pocono Mountains linked to Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Allentown, and Philadelphia. The I-80 cuts I-79 in western Pennsylvania connecting with Erie (about 75 miles [121 km] north) and Pittsburgh (about 55 miles [89 km] south). Additional intersections include I-81 connecting Syracuse, New York, and Harrisburg while I-99 connects with State College and Altoona. Also in Western Pennsylvania I-80 serves as the western terminal for I-376 connecting it with Pittsburgh International Airport and to downtown and suburban Pittsburgh.
In Clearfield County, the I-80 reached the highest elevation on the east of the Mississippi River, 2,250 feet (686 m), though other Interstate Motorways in the east of Mississippi, including I-26 in North Carolina and Tennessee, reached higher altitudes.
In 2007, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, combined with state legislative law. 44, embarked on a plan to impose a tolling system on the entire I-80 range throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On October 15, 2007, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT and PTC) signed a 50-year lease agreement, which will allow PTC to maintain and, finally, the I-80 freeway. However, applications for tolls are rejected by the Federal Highway Administration.
New Jersey
A portion of the I-80 that passes through New Jersey is called the Bergen-Passaic Express Line.
I-80 is not in New York City. After the I-95/New Jersey Turnpike was extended in 1971 from the previous terminus at US $ 46 at Ridgefield to I-80 in Teaneck, part of Teaneck to Fort Lee resigned as I-95, and that was the last road that entered New City York via the George Washington Bridge. The I-80 is designated as the tip (corresponding to the sign and document of the New Jersey Department of Transportation) four miles (6.4 km) from New York City in Teaneck, before the Degraw Avenue overpass. There, the signs point to the end of I-80 and the beginning of I-95/New Jersey Turnpike to the north.
Therefore, the fact that the mileage markers beyond the end of I-80 seem to follow as if they were part of the I-80 is a coincidence. They match what should be a true mileage marker of I-95 if Somerset Freeway has been built.
One part of the I-80 runs from Netcong to Denville was built in 1958. It is one of the oldest parts of the Interstate Highway in the United States.
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History
The I-80 was included in the original plan for the Interstate Toll Road System approved in 1956. The highway is built into segments. The final part of I-80 was completed in 1986 on the west bank of Salt Lake City. This work is by chance declared close to the 30th anniversary of the Interstate Highway System, which is noted for its dedication and considered a milestone in the construction of highways in the United States. It was also noted on the dedication that it is only 50 miles (80 km) south of the Promontory Summit, where the first in cross-continental arteries is completed - a golden spike from the First Transcontinental Train of the United States.
Geological Studies
- Geographic data associated with Interstate 80 in OpenStreetMap
- Interstate 80 Photos Eric Buchanan Index Page
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